throwback Syllabification: (throw·back)Pronunciation: /ˈTHrōˌbak/Translate throwback | into French | into Italian Definition of throwback noun a reversion to an earlier ancestral characteristic:the eyes could be an ancestral throwback a person or thing having the characteristics of a former time:a lot of his work is a throwback to the fiftiesthrowback in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of throwback in the British & World English dictionary